Thursday, August 30, 2018

Cable Network Ratings: 8/20 - 8/26/2018

FOX News led all of primetime cable for the week ending August 26, 2018. The network averaged 2.32 million viewers, over 100K more than it's closest competition, MSNBC, which found 2.18 million viewers this week. Elsewhere on cable news, CNN ranked fifth on the week with 1.3 million viewers, HLN ranked 46th with 302,000 viewers, and FOX Business was in 74th with 104,000 viewers. Other networks averaging over 1 million viewers this week include USA Network (1.39 million), HGTV (1.38 million), History (1.09 million), ESPN (1.04 million), and Hallmark Channel (1.02 million. Both Investigation Discovery and Discovery Channel barely missed the 1 million threshold this week, averaging 987,000 and 980,000 respectively.